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about thirty feet. Such a wheel is 
capable of fuftaining with eafe twenty 
feet, and diameter two inches in the 
‘¢ clear. The contents of fuch.a tube 
** would be equal to fix-tenths of a gal- 
lon, and periphery or twenty. tubes, 
‘ twelve gailons. A ftream of a mode- 
rate velocity would be {uficient to turn 
*¢ the wheel at the rate of four revolu- 
tiens in one minute, by which would 
** be lifted forty-eight gallons of water 
in that fhort period; in one hour two 
‘¢ thonfand eight hundred and eighty 
gallons; and fixty-nine thoufand one 
hundred aud twenty gallons, or up- 
wards, or three hundred tons of water 
in a day. 
‘© This wheel is thought to exceed, in 
mof refpecis, any machine yet in ule 
«« for fimilar purpofes. The Perfian 
wheel, with ‘loofe buckets fufpended 
to the edge of the rim or fellies of the 
“© wheel, fo common in the fouth of 
Services and Grants. 
tubes or fpout s, of the Jength of four -- 
- hollowed into fcoops; but 
France, andin tne Tyrol, approaches » 
f Aug. 
neafrett to the Chinefe wheel; butis 
vailiy mote expentive, and lefs Simple 
in its conftruétion, as well as lefs in- 
‘genious in the contrivance. In the 
*¢ Fyrol there are alfo wheels for lifting 
water, with a circumference of wood 
they are 
much inferior either to the Perfian or 
*« Chinefe wheel.” « 
REFERENCES To THE PLATE. 
AB the two bamboo rims of the wheel, A 
being 42 or 18 iaches lefs than B. C the axis, 
near the extremities of which are inferted 16 
or 18: {pokes of bamboo, D; which crofs each 
other at F, where they are bound together by | 
a ring, G, concentric with the circumferences. — 
The ipolkes are continued from hence to the 
two peripheries, to which they are firmly bound, 
Between the {pokes is woven the bafket work, 
H, which ferves for the floats or Petes 
of the wheel, L, fcoops or tubes, fixed at a cer- 
tain angle with the axis, that the water may be 
retained tili it afcends to the vertex. O, a long 
trough, fupported by upright pofts, R. P, tubes 
to convey the water to the refervoir, S, pofts 
to fupport the tranfoms. 
SEE 
For the Monthly Magazine, 
TH 
A 
following Statement of SeRvicEs and GRANts made out from thé Jour- 
s of Parliament, from the year 1722 
to 1797, furnifhes data for fo many 
important cenclufions, that ic deferves to be preferved in the Monthly Magazine, 
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Years. Total Services. Total Grants. Deficiency of Grants. Overplus, 
ile sie de bg ede Tce Sones i ti ee 
1722 2,666,295 9 1 '2,600;072 43.4% 65,422 15 9 ; 
1723 1,926,551 16 i1 1,869,220 5 2 57,39 roet.B 
.1724 1,918,092 18 4 1,778,859 2. 7 139,233 15 8 
725 2,094,132 8 11 4.748,543. 6 3 345,559 2°38 
1726 3.409,;696 "1 2 3:257 046 13 8 160,366 Shore 
“3727 3,444,818 12 8 34639 088 15 5 305,749 18 2 
3728 (4,6183947 6 7 4:515)757 15 0 TOZ,0RO PP. 
1729 3,654;798 7, 1 39519,352 6 19 ahs e 3 
1730 2,655,462. 8 . 6 QALIgIeG 14. O 134,902) 00) : 
1731 259025985 15 21 3,007,815 18 4 sores 104,830 2 § 
1732 20025242, 11) 9 1,880,847 8 5 123,395 oli 
1733 2,075,307 O11 1,737,953 35 10 287,343 5 1 
17 34 4,014,763 6 2 3,978,362 10 10, 36.405 15 4 
31735 Zsz00,262 2 8 325051 Oy ES iG 21,096 9 8 
1736 2;417,903 Il 5 4393552507. 7, TF 62,401 3 6 
1737 3,233,882°1% 92 352555 5 OR), Og 2O,921 . 4 IT 
473835432717 19 7 31552,109 17 4 5 119,451 17 9 
1739 237975729: 9 10 2,376,458 17 9 ——— 33,722 7 JO 
3740 4,024,560 17° .9 4,064,149 8 7 —— 39,588 10 1a 
1741 552657,030 7 § 5,003,298 ~9 TO 263,731 17 7 
1742 6,137,507 ¥7 06 6,1500c0 a 0 ——— -" ¥2,492 2 .§ 
1743 6,131,026 6 ro 6,061,092 2 5 119,034 4 4 n ah 
1744 6,753.42 2 ea 6,586,000 © o 177-421 18 °3 
1745 6,553,194 16 6 O57 244 B32) 0:8 11,950 2 g 
1745 7,335,373 7 ar 7250,000 0 0 1353378 4 7 
1747 92934336 17 9 9:362,508 19 2 573,827.18 7 
1748 10,620,136 9 6 1G:6 50,000) 10.0 $70,186 9g 6 
‘3749 551255736 5 3 4,750,ccO*O 0 5753739, Sasi 
1750 41334323 19 3 4,268,526 10 3 65,797 38 41. 
1751 6,194,793 1 6 6,140,041°16 1 est: 5 ak 
1752 4,131,904 10 11 4,150,000 © Oo —-~— ¥8,035 9 @ 
1753. 23414:973. 34 5 2,422,911 3 4 aa 73937 14 & 
2;541,00Q -1 I 2544,348 X 2 | oe ee 
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